OK, here's
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*my* take, since I've thought about this for a few years now, although not yet tried things myself.
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As Mitch mentioned, Jim Griffin made up a system on
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"MR2Beast", although he never stated whether he'd got it to work well
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(he seemed to encounter a couple of problems).
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What Jim tried was to use the air-con system to cool the fluid in the CC's reservoir.
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A crazy friend of mine with a very powerful 3SGTE tried a system whereby he was using the refridgerant solely to cool the charge air.
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Apparently it worked very well, but the core kept on breaking from the excessive pressures.
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Since he couldn't find a core strong enough, he gave up.
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Ford patented a refridgerated CC system a few years back, driven by an AC compressor, and they used a clever way to ensure that the system didn't sap more power than it was giving.
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In fact, I had the EXACT SAME idea for such a system, that I'd planned out prior to even hearing about Ford's system, which made me chuckle, but gutted I didn't come out with it first.
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I've developed my idea a bit better on paper, but just haven't got round to trying it out.
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I can't say too much about it, because a lot of thinking has gone into it, and I plan to try it out first before talking too much about it.
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One thing I
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*will* say though is that you don't need the refridgeration to work full time.
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Basically, on a road car, how often are you on boost? In road car situations, it's rare that you need any more cooling than a well-designed chargecooler system will give.
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Where such a system
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*does* have benefits though is during high ambient temps or in race/track conditions.
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